Category Archives: astronomy

Something Called Nothing – Podolny

Posted on November 24, 2013 by The Mitr

The present book relates the history of views, the development of ideas, often ones that are still in the making. In this post we will see a book about nothing! The curios title of the book is Something Called Nothing … Continue reading →

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The Space Age – Shkolenko

Posted on August 17, 2013 by damitr

In this post we will see The Space Age by Yuri Shkolenko The author, Yu. A. Shkolenko, is a doctor of philosophy and a journalist. In his book he has com-bined reflections on the fundamental processes occurring in the space … Continue reading →

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A Spaceship In Orbit – Kolesnikov, Glazkov

Posted on August 14, 2013 by damitr

In this post we will see A Spaceship In Orbit by Yu.V. Kolesnikov, Yu. N. Glazkov “What lies ahead of you is the investigation of the crater-gnawed Moon and the landing on Mars. You are expected to penetrate into the … Continue reading →

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Space Adventures From Your Home – Rabiza

Posted on June 13, 2013 by damitr

In this post we will see a children’s book on experiments on space travel titled Space Adventures in Your Home by F. Rabiza Space Adventures in Your Home will help you perform experiments on your own. Of course, this book … Continue reading →

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In the Search for Beauty – Smilga

Posted on April 30, 2013 by The Mitr

In an earlier post we have seen a wonderful book on special relativity titled Relativity and Man by V. Smilga. In that post, it was pointed out another book by this wonderful author titled In theSearch for Beauty, which has … Continue reading →

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Travel To Distant Worlds – Gilzin

Posted on December 25, 2012 by desperadomar

We now come to Travel to Distant Worlds by Karl Gilzin. This is a   very optimistic book about future, written at just the beginning of   space age. The youth throughout the world have been manifesting a great   … Continue reading →

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Yakov Perelman – New Links

Posted on September 15, 2012 by damitr

New (magnet/ torrent/ direct) links  (TPB and IA and 4shared: this is the order of links for each file) for Yakov Perelman’s books.  Will also update the new links in the original posts soon, the old links (filecloud) are working … Continue reading →

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Radar Made Easy – Razmakhnin

Posted on September 4, 2012 by damitr

We now come to Radar Made Easy by M. Razamkhnin. This book is an attempt to explain the working of radar and its applications, leaving out the gruesome mathematics. Though most of the applications that the author talks about are related … Continue reading →

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Matter and Man – Vasilyev, Stanyukovich

Posted on September 4, 2012 by damitr

We come to a book by M. Vasilyev, K. Stanyukovich titled Matter and Man. The book talks about the various aspects of matter and how man (humans!) has come to control them and use them. The book thematically explores solids, … Continue reading →

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Relativity and Man – V. Smilga

Posted on July 7, 2012 by damitr

Our task is to comprehend the purely physical essence of the theory, without going into problems which cannot be explained here with sufficient clarity. After seeing three books (RTG and STG) on General Relativity (GR) and one Special Theory of … Continue reading →

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